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Minimal Quantile Functions Subject to Stochastic Dominance Constraints

Probability 2022-08-02 v2 Mathematical Finance Risk Management

Abstract

We consider a problem of finding an SSD (second-order stochastic dominance)-minimal quantile function subject to the mixture of FSD (first-order stochastic dominance) and SSD constraints. The SSD-minimal solution is explicitly worked out and has a close relation to the Skorokhod problem. This result is then applied to explicitly solve a risk minimizing problem in financial economics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2008.02420,
  title  = {Minimal Quantile Functions Subject to Stochastic Dominance Constraints},
  author = {Xiangyu Wang and Jianming Xia and Zuo Quan Xu and Zhou Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.02420},
  year   = {2022}
}
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